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See also:COUNT ADRIEN See also:ALBERT See also:MARIE DE See also:MUN (1841— )
, See also:French politician, was See also:born at Lumigny, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Marne, on the 28th of See also:February 1841
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He entered the See also:army, saw much service in See also:Algeria (1862), and took See also:part in the fighting around See also:Metz in 187o
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On the surrender of Metz, he was sent as a prisoner of See also:war to See also:Aix-la-Chapelle, whence he returned in See also:time to assist at the See also:capture of See also:Paris from the See also:Commune
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A fervent See also:Roman See also:Catholic, he devoted himself to advocating a See also:patriarch type bf See also:Christian See also:Socialism
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His eloquence made him the most prominent member of the Cercles Catholiques d'Ouvriers, and his attacks on Republican social policy at last evoked a See also:prohibition from the See also:minister of war
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He thereupon resigned his See also:commission (Nov
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1895), and in the following February stood as Royalist and Catholic See also:candidate for See also:Pontivy
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The See also:influence of the See also: But as a faithful Catholic he obeyed the encyclical of 1892, and declared his readiness to rally to a Republican See also:government, provided that it respected See also:religion . In the following See also:January he received from the pope a See also:letter commending his See also:action, and encouraging him in his social reforms . He was defeated at the general election of that See also:year, but in 1894 was returned for See also:Finistere (See also:Morlaix) . In 1897 he succeeded Jules See also:Simon as a member of the French See also:Academy . This See also:honour he owed to the purity of See also:style and remarkable eloquence of his speeches, which, with a few See also:pamphlets, form the bulk of his published See also:work . In Ma vocation sociale (1908) he wrote an explanation and See also:justification of his career . |
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